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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicDelhi Mumbai expressway

Topic: Delhi Mumbai expressway

Life on India’s shiny new expressways—sleeping truck drivers, jugaad, and secret dhabas

ThePrint was on board Gaffar’s truck as he told the story of a transforming highway landscape while driving on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway through a sandstorm.

Chambal Ravines are now safe because of new roads. But Indians must learn how to drive

The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana roads have opened up economic opportunities but they will be pointless if average Indian user doesn’t know how to use them.

Once a Surat diamond heiress, this 9-yr-old is now a Jain nun living in a ‘bubble-like sansaar’

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is impressive but Indians’ driving lanes apart

Seeing me drive on this 10-lane road in a powerful German-built convertible with the roof down, you could have said I was in the American north-east.

Delhi to Jaipur in 4 hours — PM to inaugurate 1st stretch of Delhi-Mumbai expressway on 12 Feb

Touted as country's longest, the entire 1,386 km expressway is likely to be operational by 2024. It will be the first in Asia & second in world to have overpasses for wildlife.

1,380 km long, 8 lanes, tunneling through sanctuary: All about Delhi-Mumbai Expressway

The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is being built at an estimated cost of Rs 98,000 crore and is likely to be completed by March 2023.

Off The Cuff with Nitin Gadkari

In conversation with Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said India’s road infrastructure will be comparable to the...

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What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.